Gay clerics certain to win struggle, Right Rev Gene Robinson says

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Homosexual clerics were certain to win their struggle for acceptance within the Church, the world’s first openly gay bishop told a Scottish congregration yesterday.

The Right Rev Gene Robinson, the Bishop of New Hampshire, said that the worldwide Anglican Communion was eventually bound to recognise that it could not block out people who were attracted to people of the same sex. Bishop Robinson, who has become a hate figure among Christian fundamentalists because he is gay and living with another man, said: “The reason I can be calm in the middle of this particular storm is because I know how